15 Feb
2025
15 Feb
'25
8:11 p.m.
On Sat, 2025-02-15 at 20:41 -0700, Warner Losh via cctalk wrote:
Well... the pdp-10 could use any number of bits per
character... the
underlying instructions made packing and unpacking easy.
I think the Burroughs (Who?) 1700 had instructions that made accessing
any sequence of bits easy — maybe up to a word length but not
necessarily in the same word.